Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-05
ODD MATTERS ABROAD.

RRPonTs from the Japanese Empire con.
vey the Intelligence that European fash
ions il female attire are finding high favor
ct tho court receptions. The domestics Of
the palace arc to 10 Clothed in Ivory SIM
liar TO that worn in the imperial household
Of Austria.
1r is said that London is to havc ''hvgi-
enic restaurant" where dyspeptics viii
dine. When they enter they will toll their
symptoms to one Of the attendant doctors,
who win plan out proper dinners for them,
which they then will proceed to eat il q pre-
scri5cd manner.
QUEEN VICTORIA is mourning the death Of
her old nurse, Miss Skcrritt, who recently
passed away at tho mature age OF ninety
four. Miss Skcrri;t had seen service I'M
Ger Queens Charlotte and Adelaide, and
had nursed Queen Victoria, the Prince Of
w ales and other royal children.
Tue ancient and famous city of Danas-
Gus, which was place of Importance 1900
years u. c., is busy with plans for laying
railroad lines through tho streets. Street
cars in city said to have been founded by
Abraham would be startling novelty
The place has ono hundred and twenty
thousand inhabitants.
TALL men arc said to be rare in the En-
giish militia. A man over six feet in
height is thought to be very tall. Out of
ll4.4s9 in the force, but a few over eight
hundred are moro than six feet high. Ono
quarter the total number are under five
feet and five inches and twenty thousand
arc lc9S than five feet and SIX inches tall.
TIE London police are being taught short
hand, to enable them to put on paper quick
ly the. results of their Investigations and
examinations. There are numerous occa-
ciOnQ on which n Y,olicoy,, xt-Aull ho rrloI
to be able to take rapid note CT some in
cidcnt which he witnessed or conversation
that no heard.
THE favoritc puss Of a rich nobleman Of
Japan was lately borne 10 its last homo in a
snow-whitc coffin, covered with gorgeous
white silk pail, while It's inconSolable mis-
tress and large number Of female mourn
ers followed the remains. Priests, chanting
solemn litany, met the bier, and escorted
it to its grave.
THE color line is drawn sharply in the Ba-
hamas. Till recently the blacks have been
forced to enter the churches in Nassau by
different doors from the whites, and this is
still true Of the other islands. Even in Mas
sau negroes and white men sit in separate
sections of the church. AT Harbor Island
three blacks were recently fined by mag
istratc for insisting on their right to enter
Methodist church by tho white man s
! door.
PROVINCIAL play-gocrs have become 80
terrified by the recent destructive thcatcr
fires in Paris that they prefer to remain at
homo rather than risk their lives in the
thcators. This, it Is said, has worked Sc
verc injury to that line of business, and
travelling companies find difficulty in meet
ing expenses. Tho los1l authorities and
newspapers warn people Of the danger, and
in one town Of France the theatre is under
the closest surveillance Of the fire depart
ment whenever play is in progress.
ACCORDING to English writers colored
people are somewhat popular in England.
Many Of the negro residents arc quite COM
monty seen in the society of white people
and apparently occupying an equal footing.
| London correspondent says: saw the
other day upon Regent Street, negro girl,
black as coal, walking along leaning upon
| the arm of fashionable, well-drcssed
Englishm2n who seemed perfectly charmed
and contcnted with his dusky companion.
In the same way have seen white women,
respectable in their appearance and dress,
walking in public leaning upon the arms OF
! negroes.